Found wrong Structure against sbyte* in VkPhysicalDeviceProperties

[DeafMan1983]

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deviceName has wrong type but it was original for sbyte*
because It happens if I follow step to step with Vulkan + WinAPI click here

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Because it has wrong structure / type and I cannot pass to sbyte* explict

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How do I replace with sbyte*?

Expected Behavior

I have tried ... No success....

Actual Behavior

I think we need to replace VkPhysicalDeviceProperties_deviceName_e__fixedBuffer with sbyte*

Thank you!

[tannergooding]

It is not an sbyte* and has never been an sbyte*, it is an inline array of type sbyte which exactly matches the underlying Vulkan type definition. Previously it was using the legacy fixed sbyte deviceName[256] syntax and has since switched to explicitly using [InlineArray(256)] which is new in .NET 8.

You can simply get a span to the backing data, such as via:

Span<sbyte> deviceName = physicalProperties.deviceName;

You can then pin and do other manipulations as appropriate.